"If we hadn't been there, I would have loved for Barça to have been there and for them to have won it," said the Asturian coach
Luis Enrique Martínez will return to a Champions League final 10 years later. He will do so as coach of Paris Saint-Germain and against Inter, after the Nerazzurri left the FC Barcelona of his heart on the road. "For me, playing in a Champions League final against Barça would have been the worst. The worst. If we hadn't been there, I would have loved for Barça to have been there and for them to have won it. If we were going to be there, and now we are going to be, we will try to get it," said the Asturian in the microphones of Movistar+.
"The result was a bit strange"
On the elimination of Hansi Flick's team, Lucho commented that "if you tell someone that you are going to score six goals in a semi-final and you are going to be eliminated, you don't believe it. He showed with his style what kind of football is practiced in Barcelona. Clearly they could have been in the final and they deserved it. The result was a bit strange," he said.
"I know that PSG does not arouse much sympathy in Barcelona but that's life, I do my job. This is an exciting project. It's the project as a coach. Create a team and even if the players leave, we continue to think that with young players we can make those cracks," continued the former Barça coach.
His PSG beat Arsenal 2-1, making the 0-1 in the first leg in London (even more) good. "Mikel Arteta almost killed me, he took the game to where he wanted. They have managed to get us to play a game that we did not want, but this team has a lot of race. We clearly deserve to be in the final," said Luis Enrique, who praised the work of his namesake on the Gunners bench and Gianluigi Donnarumma, who made three high-level saves. "How are you going to win a Champions League if you don't have a great goalkeeper and 11 full-field players? ' Gigio' has been wonderful, like the whole Champions League," he said.
In addition, the former national coach wanted to remember that PSG's road to the final in Munich "has been tortuous. We were the team with the worst schedule, that has made us grow and improve. At the beginning of the Champions League we didn't get points and I think the team has continued to believe in itself and overcome these things," said Lucho, very clear when it came to identifying the turning point of his team. "Against City we lost 2-0 in a game that we didn't deserve to lose. We were going badly but the statistics showed that we were one of the best teams in Europe. The team has continued to be confident. We're going to go to the final, which is clearly going to be a very difficult match," he concluded.